San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

IO THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW June ii, 1910 THEATRICAL TIGHTS ALL COLORS, WEIGHTS AND QUALITIES — Cotton, 75c to J1.50: Wool $2.50 to $3.50; Lisle or Silkoline. $3.00 to $4.50; Silk, $5.00 to $12.50. SYMMETRICALS BP ^E c^-'MS" ,ft,f; k-/ 1 * \M—»*J Ca)f Thign and Hip j12.60. We also Make Padded Shirts. SWEATERS, JERSEYS, GYM., ATHLETIC and BATH SUITS, SUPPORTERS, ACROBATIC SHOES, GOOD UNDERWEAR Knit to Fit in All Materials. We operate our own mills, carry a large «tock and make goods to measure at reasonable prices. We suit the professional as if he were buying in Europe. Write us for prices and samples. Special Discount to the Profession. Corner Post St. and Grant Ave. Bert Levey Circuit INDEPENDENT VAUDEVILLE Main Office, 144-150 POWELL ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Acts desiring to play this circuit, kindly communicate with CHAS. H. DOUTRICK. 92 La Salle street, Chicago, Illinois, and EDWARD MOZART, Independent Booking Office, Knickerbocker Theatre Building, New York City. Sullivan & Considine circuit Of the smaller popular-priced theatres to be operated in conjunction with their regular circuit houses, comprising time in CALIFORNIA, UTAH, COLORADO, KANSAS and Eastern Connections. Good Acts Can Always Secure Immediate Bookings Booking Department, 1117 MARKET STREET, W. P. REESE, Manager Archie Levy's Amusement Ass'n THE VAUDEVILLE EXCHANGE OF THE PACIFIC COAST WESTBANK BUILDING, Ellis and Market Streets, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Rooms 520-521 Managers desiring talent Write. Artists send in your open time now. Managers, Attention: We have added a new department — Theatrical supplies of all kinds — we will build yon a theatre or furnish any part. Burns-Howell Circuit with general offices at the Central Theatre, cor. 8th and Market streets, San Francisco, Cal. Phone Market 777. Home J 2940. American Circuit of Cafes and Theatres WANTED AT ALL TIMES— All Kinds of High-Class Artists. Nothing too Big. Nothing too Small. Engagements from 10 to 30 Weeks. TONY LUBELSKI, Gen Mgr. 617-618 Westbank Building, San Francisco Vaudeville The Orpheum The Orpheum bill this week is up to road-show standard. It is much better than some of the holiday inducements that have been held out to San Francisco lovers of vaudeville at the Yuletide season, and this is said without intending in any way to disparage the Christmas programs of the Orpheum, but, instead, to emphasize the excellence of the running at" tractions. To begin with, there is that topliner among topliners, Vesta Victoria, for whom vaudeville managers all over the world exert their most subtle schemes in order to book her over their circuits. Vesta Victoria is all that any press agent has ever said of her, and more. She has no singing voice worthy of the name, her vocal efforts being about on a par with those of our well-known comedian, Ferris Ilartman, and as for good looks, she is as shy of those as was Abraham Lincoln. But does she make good? Well, say, ask anybody who has seen her this week. Nat Goodwin is not able to obtain a quicker, surer hold on his audiences than is she. Vesta Victoria carries no elaborate sets. She is sufficient unto herself. A few touches of costume, here and there, to suggest the character she is impersonating, and the rest she does in her own unanalysable way. Even Harry Lawdor is not her equal in all respects. Lyons and Yosco, two musicians of the Italian brand, dressed in picturesque1 native costumes, were second in point of popularity the other evening, after the English impersonator had left the stage. Their songs went well. They accompanied themselves in a manner that proved highly satisfactory to the house. Allen Atwell, whose Japanese in Paid in Full created so much favorable comment on his two visits to this city, appeared this week in The Code Book, a 20-minute sketch by Herbert D. Walter, a San Francisco boy, who lias made quite a success in a literary way in New York. As an interpreter of the psychological processes of the little brown man, Mr. Atwell is probably without a superior on the American stage today. Charles Hammond, also an excellent actor, appears with Mr. Atwell. The play suggests the possibilities of an American-Japanese war. The stars and stripes in this particular case are victorious, and the Japanese, masquerading as a Filipino, is made to disgorge his precious memoranda. It is all melodrama, but well written and well acted. Paul Spadoni, a strong man. does some remarkable work with heavy weights. He is extremely versatile, and introduces many new effects. Mrs. Richard Rees, a San Francisco singer, makes her initial appearance in vaudeville this week. She has an excellent voice and should have no trouble in securing good booking. Fiddler and Shelton do some singing, some dancing and some impersonating, all of a pleasing character. They are <rood at all three forms of entertaining. Edward Abcles still appears in his sketch, Self-Defense, which lias lost none of its thrill since last week. How good this week's program is may be judged from the fact that even the Dsh era and the orchestra are inter ested throughout. Praise from Caesar is praise indeed ! The National There are several turns on the bill here. — but Kara, well that's all — Kara! Who is Kara? He is programmed as a juggler, but his manager, like myself, must have found it impossible to find a fitting classification, and let it go at juggler. You know a juggler is a person that throws things in the air and catches them — sometimes. Some wear baggy trousers and scraggy whiskers and say funny words and things. Kara's trousers do not bag at the knees, and he is dumb to the stranger, but grace, agility, ingenuity, magnetism, are his, and — oh, what's the use ! A pretty compliment was paid him by the vast audience. His is the last turn, and no one stirred until after a spontaneous ovation bad proclaimed -him victor. Emile Chevricl has a violin and a personality. Emile exudes real humor. Emile is all the much-abused word, artist, means. Won't some of you self-conscious young men drop in on Emile and "catch" him in action ! Then go home and wonder whether, after years of study, aided by natural talent, you will ever be fit to appear before a discriminating audience. Four compelling modest young men enter as the Trocadero Four, and when they conclude their brainy and harmonic turn, you sigh for more. O you dear old Clipper Quartette ! \\ hat great changes are taking place! Bore me not w ith tales of the good old palmy days. Watch these boys and be grateful. Now. Fields and Coco! I saw your act in London, but the boys that did it there were not quite so deliberate. You are neat and you are graceful, but don't you think a little snap would please these quick-fire, nervous American audiences? Wolfe, Moore and Young, two young ladies and a strenuous boy, who may or may not have seen Geo. M. Cohan tear things, have youth, good looks, dancing feet and "voices" to offer you. Those girls certainly can dance, and so can the youth, but please, Mr. Overworked Drummer, won't you hit those cymbals a little harder? You can't? Well I did not see Rolf Rafacllv, but the manager and booking agent assured me he was immense. Sign here, please. There were some motion pictures and an overture. There was, as always, the famous National courtesy from the house staff, but — O you Kara ! The American I wonder if the regular vaudeville turns on the bill ever feel jealous of the laughs and applause the Jas. Post Company extract from the packed houses. They shouldn't, for each and every turn this week gets it over nicely and have no cause to call 'Frisco stingy. Surely the Boyle Brothers were happy when they finished their act. Of course they deserved all they got and more. They throw clubs,* roll hoops, make faces and are worth while all the time. Hilly Flwood is a sailor, and a sober one. but he and bis battleship prevent the audience from holding sober faces. Then we have Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dowling in neat farce. J. J. is one of the old war-horses of the legit., and he has forgotten none of the tricks that made him a popular star years ago. and say, Nobody's Claim would go now, Mr. and Mrs. J J1 Who that is merging into middle age cannot recall visions of the only one when she was sweet sixteen ! Frances White will cause time to turn backward in its flight. Ah, me! "Airy, fairy Lillian," "I Never Loved a Dear Gazelle." Oh. don't get mushy ! Miss White is what your fancy painted when love was young. Lonzo Cox, with his dreamy, poetic style, takes you away to green fields and moonlight nights. His scissors silhouettes, thrown on fair Luna to the music of his plaintive poesy, are a joy forever to the inspirationist. I would not gamble he is ignorant of astronomy. How about that comet, Mr. Cox? And now comes the Post bunch and the riot. Truly a bill of variety and congratulations -to the man who picked it. I 111 going again. Bookings At the Sullivan & Considine, San Francisco office, through Wm. P. Reese, their sole booking agent, for week of June 12, 1910. NATIONAL, San Francisco— Boutin and Tillson. Hamilton Hill, Bessie Bacon & Co., Solar and Rogers. Loro and Payne, W. T. O'Hcarn & Co. HELL. 'Oakland— Wolfe, Moore and Young, Fields and Coco. Rolf Rafaely, Trocadero Four. The Wheelers. Verona Verdi and Brother. WIGWAM, San Francisco — Smith and Arado, The Longworths, Lew Welch & Co., AMERICAN THEATRICAL EXCHANGE AL. WATSON, Manager. Pacific Phone Douglas 5882. Home Phone C 4055 BOOKING AGENCY — DRAMATIC and VAUDEVILLE Suite 401. Westbank Building Market and Ellis Streets. San Francisco Fred O. Osborne, Mgr. Theatrical Code, "Santapole." Home Phone F5037. New York Dramatic Agency Booking Dramatic and VaudevUle Acta. Organizing and routing companies, supplying "Scripts." etc. Belasco Theatre Bldg., Los Angeles — Entire Third Floor. Musical Lowe, Wilton Rrothers, Bur-« leigh's Balloon Girl. GRAND, Sac-j ramento — Klein and Clifton, Wood* and Law son, Frances White, Emile Chevricl. Kara. GARRICK, Stock* ton— Corcoran and Dixon. LOS AN« GELES, Los Angeles— Joseph J. and Myra Davis Dowling.' Billy El wood j# Bovle Brothers, Frank and True Rice, Earle Sisters. Little Hip. AMERICAN. San Francisco — Jim Post & Co., Wilson and Pearson, Matt Keefe and Joe Bruno. Montague & Co. QUEEN', San Diego — Ray Snow, Newell and Niblo, Lew and Nellie Shaw, Velde Trio. Mattie Lockette. MISSION. Salt Lake City — Nadje, Thomas and Fuller. Guise. Anne Blancke & Co., Marvel Duo. Frank Whitman. MAJESTIC, Denver— Allen Doone & Co., Harry Batchelor, Meier and Mora, The Berinis, Leroy and Clayton, Lucilc Tilton.